Hotel indigo, Glasgow.
Saturday, 14 April 2012
Tuesday, 10 April 2012
IPhone Personal Hotspot - Day Two
I battled with random disconnections and downright wilful refusal of my iPad to find the iPhone Personal Hotspot throughout the day.
I have concluded that this feature is too unreliable and will do all I can to avoid having to depend on it as my main method of iPad Internet access in the future.
I have concluded that this feature is too unreliable and will do all I can to avoid having to depend on it as my main method of iPad Internet access in the future.
Monday, 9 April 2012
iPhone Personal Hotspot
I am on holiday this week staying in a location with no Internet connection. I used to have a mifi from 3 which worked well. When I upgraded my old iPhone 3Gs for a 4S I got an unlimited data usage contract and so cancelled my mifi contract in the expectation that the iPhone Personal Hotspot feature would provide Internet access for my other devices when necessary.
I feel a bit anxious about this as I am a connection obsessive.
Day one. Simply tethering my iPad is causing connection problems already. It takes an age to find the iPhone and frequently drops the connection, refusing to connect again until I have muttered incantations over both devices and reset various network settings.
I shall persevere for the rest of the week as I have no choice now but suspect I will be ordering a new mifi as soon as I return from holiday. I don't use it frequently but the few times I do need to use it I really need it.
Tuesday, 27 March 2012
Fun with Cubase
Recorded over a long period of time as an exercise in learning to use Cubase. I never got around to adding the bass but think it sounds better without it.
Monday, 26 March 2012
John Siracusa - Mac OS X Reviews
I have been a long-time reader of ars technica and have been amazed by the amount of detail contained in John Siracusa’s OS X reviews each of which is a pocket symphony of tech information. I have been patiently working my way through all of his OS X reviews starting from 10.0 Cheetah from way back in 2001.
I had to spend a bit of time searching reviews of all of the releases and some of the results took me to seemingly old versions with missing graphics. After I bit of work I managed to find the best version of each review and thought it would be helpful to share them here.
John Siracusa’s Mac OS X reviews from are technica
- Mac OS X v10.0 Cheetah – March 24, 2001
- Mac OS X v10.1 Puma – September 25, 2001
- Mac OS X v10.2 Jaguar – August 24, 2002
- Mac OS X v10.3 Panther – October 24, 2003
- Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger – April 29, 2005
- Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard – October 26, 2007
- Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard – August 28, 2009
- Mac OS X v10.7 Lion – July 20, 2011
Happy reading.
Friday, 16 March 2012
Best Skype Microphone Ever
I was about to purchase a Yeti USB microphone when I remembered I had this little baby tucked away in a cupboard.
Sunday, 11 March 2012
Clutter Clearance Burst
Possessions can be a bit overwhelming can't they? They slowly and gradually take over your life.
I have always been a hobbies person. Over the years I have immersed myself in music, photography, computing and reading. All of these interests bring their associated paraphernalia such as books, manuals, accessories, tapes, cables, etc. As a consequence of this I have filled my house to bursting with the accumulation over the years. I am not thankfully in the hoarder class but am somewhere down that road.
It got to the stage where I could never easily put my hand on things I needed. I would waste hours searching for my capo, a lens or a specific book I needed to refer to. It was inconvenient but I could have happily continued like this but for the death of my father.
Without going into too much detail I can say for sure that dad was a hoarder. After his death my sister and I spent weeks clearing and sorting his possessions. There were drawers and cupboards overflowing with things that I remembered from childhood and knew them to be junk even then.
A combination of these circumstances started me on the road to a clutter-free life with the ambition of disposing of unnecessary possessions which would hopefully leave me with only the things that I needed.
Here is an example of my home office before I started. Almost everything you can see in this photograph is now gone.
It has been a slow start but I am getting into my stride now.
Goodbye floppy disks full of midi programming files from studio sessions in the late 1980’s.
Goodbye RAM for old laptops that run slower than the Simon game I have on my keyring.
Goodbye master tapes of old studio recording that nobody cares about.
Goodbye to the last of my vinyl collection.
Goodbye to boxes full of old music transcriptions.
Goodbye cassette tapes.
And goodbye to the storage all the above was contained in.
To end on a happy note here is my capo which finally turned up on the bottom of a box full of midi cables.
I have always been a hobbies person. Over the years I have immersed myself in music, photography, computing and reading. All of these interests bring their associated paraphernalia such as books, manuals, accessories, tapes, cables, etc. As a consequence of this I have filled my house to bursting with the accumulation over the years. I am not thankfully in the hoarder class but am somewhere down that road.
It got to the stage where I could never easily put my hand on things I needed. I would waste hours searching for my capo, a lens or a specific book I needed to refer to. It was inconvenient but I could have happily continued like this but for the death of my father.
Without going into too much detail I can say for sure that dad was a hoarder. After his death my sister and I spent weeks clearing and sorting his possessions. There were drawers and cupboards overflowing with things that I remembered from childhood and knew them to be junk even then.
A combination of these circumstances started me on the road to a clutter-free life with the ambition of disposing of unnecessary possessions which would hopefully leave me with only the things that I needed.
Here is an example of my home office before I started. Almost everything you can see in this photograph is now gone.
It has been a slow start but I am getting into my stride now.
Goodbye floppy disks full of midi programming files from studio sessions in the late 1980’s.
Goodbye RAM for old laptops that run slower than the Simon game I have on my keyring.
Goodbye master tapes of old studio recording that nobody cares about.
Goodbye to the last of my vinyl collection.
Goodbye to boxes full of old music transcriptions.
Goodbye cassette tapes.
And goodbye to the storage all the above was contained in.
To end on a happy note here is my capo which finally turned up on the bottom of a box full of midi cables.
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